Facebook Named "Top Place to Work"

It's not just IPO riches that is drawing engineers and other
employees to Facebook,
the all-conquering social network. The company has topped the
"top places to work" ranking by Glassdoor.com, a careers site,
this year,
reports GigaOm.

Mark
Zuckerberg got an exceptionally high approval status from his
employees at 96%, beaten only by Steve Jobs at 97%. Facebook was
graded 4.6 out of 5 on a host of metrics like: work/life balance,
career opportunities, communication, compensation and benefits,
fairness and respect, employee morale, recognition and feedback,
and senior leadership.

On question-and-answer site Quora,
ex-Google and Facebook engineer David Braginsky described the
culture at Facebook as more "cozy" and casual than Google, and
where employees can have a bigger impact. This last point is a
big part of Facebook's appeal to engineers and a point Mark
Zuckerberg makes endlessly in public. Facebook has the highest
ratio of employees-to-users of any tech company, he says, and so
workers there can, at least the theory goes, have more impact on
the world there than at a startup (less employees, but less
users) or at a bigger company like Google (more users, but also
more employees).